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Windows 7 - Cannot logon because of logon method
I have a Windows 7 Pro computer on a domain suddenly giving this error when trying to login as admin or any user on the system:
"You cannot log on because the logon method you are using is not allowed on this computer"
Since I can't logon locally I edited the domain group policy to allow anyone to logon to all machines. That made the error go away, but now the machine either logs back off immediately or goes to a black screen and sits there where I can’t do anything including bring up the task manager. Safe mode does the same thing.
This computer is less than a month old and I we had no signs of malware (other than this perhaps)
Any ideas of what can be happening?
"You cannot log on because the logon method you are using is not allowed on this computer"
Since I can't logon locally I edited the domain group policy to allow anyone to logon to all machines. That made the error go away, but now the machine either logs back off immediately or goes to a black screen and sits there where I can’t do anything including bring up the task manager. Safe mode does the same thing.
This computer is less than a month old and I we had no signs of malware (other than this perhaps)
Any ideas of what can be happening?
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that may get you in to check the settings of the local group policy and make any needed changes.
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The group policy is actually what I did. That allowed me to login, but after login we were getting a black screen or just bounce back to the login sceen.
Thanks!
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Sounds like you might have malware or a virus like a rootkit causing problems. Try downloading and running TDSSKiller and run it on there in Safe mode. You may also want to look at this thread:
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/lofiversion/index.php/t7624.html
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/lofiversion/index.php/t7624.html
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Ended up rebuilding the PC.
Might I suggest you make a new roaming profile next time and see if that fixes the problem. Roaming profiles get corrupted quite often. Glad to see your problem was is gone now though. If you had responded earlier I could have suggested the roaming profile check before reimaging. Since reimaging is a last resort.
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Thanks, interesting idea. Sorry this all went down pretty fast. By the time of your original reply we had already rebuilt the machine. Just now getting back to updating and closing the question.
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